If You Come Softly

If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson is a 1998 Society & Culture book written by TED speaker Jacqueline Woodson, paired here with the talk they gave.

After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.

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